Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
We’re deep in the hot days of summer, and there’s no better way to cool off than by jumping into the ocean and going on a journey in a colorful submersible. Granted, you won’t feel a refreshing splash of water if you’re in a submersible, but we needed a way to introduce the fact that Yellow Submarine is now streaming…
The best thing about today’s reboot-happy culture is that none of us ever really need to grow up and move on from the things we liked as children, and nothing has ever illustrated that more clearly than Nickelodeon announcing today that it’s bringing back Rugrats. In a press release, the network announced that it’s…
A lot of right-wing political figures have been falling over each other to reveal that they got tricked into doing interviews for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series Who Is America?, as if supporting Trump just makes people really proud to admit how easily they can get conned, but Sarah Palin was one of the first…
Sony has been talking about developing a movie based on its Uncharted series of blockbuster action games for nearly a decade now. What started as a David O Russell-directed Mark Wahlberg vehicle that sounded nothing like the games morphed into a different adaptation with a script from Joe Carnahan and in its latest…
According to Deadline, Timothée Chalamet is in “final talks” to star in Denis Villeneuve’s new Dune movie. He’ll reportedly be playing Paul Atreides, the character Kyle MachLachlan played in David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation and the main hero of the story. Like Lynch’s version, Villeneuve’s Dune will be based on the 1965…
We’re probably going to get the first trailer for director James Wan’s Aquaman movie later this week during Comic-Con, so to try and go fishing for a little bit of hype, Wan has shared the first teaser poster for the film on social media. It’s a pretty standard one-sheet, with Jason Momoa’s eponymous man wearing…
Matthew Rhys donned many disguises in his time on The Americans, including a really brief stint as a reporter (otherwise known as the greatest threat to democracy, if President “I Heart Russia” is to be believed). Variety reports he’ll have a chance to expand on that role as part of the Fred Rogers biopic, You Are My…
If you’ve kept up with the twisty conspiracy series Mr. Robot, then you know these past two seasons gave us some flashbacks to how troubled hacker Elliot first started toying with the idea of his revolution. But now, there’s a chance for a much more in-depth look at the birth of fsociety—it just won’t be on your…
Mission: Impossible—Fallout hits theaters on July 27th, with the promise of even more insane Tom Cruise stunts and maybe some weird stuff with Henry Cavill’s beard. To prepare for the release of Fallout, YouTube film essayist Patrick Willems takes a long look at the Mission: Impossible series,…
We first came across the above video on veteran Scientology reporter Tony Ortega’s website. If its chintzy aesthetic, bargain bin beats, and sheer abundance of white people “raising the roof” has you wondering how it isn’t a parody, well, you’re not alone. But Ortega points out cameos from “high-profile”…
The Video Music Awards, your yearly reminder that MTV does in fact continue to play music videos, are scheduled for August 20, when we’ll see Cardi B, Beyoncé, JAY-Z, Bruno Mars, Drake, Childish Gambino, and more compete for Moonpeople and bragging rights. The complete list of nominations is now out, with The Carters…
Felicity Jones embarks on another hero’s journey in On The Basis Of Sex, trading droids for jabots to play U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. With an appropriately swelling score, the first trailer for Mimi Leder’s film shows Jones as Ginsburg patiently but determinedly making her way through the…
In a memorable early scene from The Dark Knight, Gotham gangster Gambol (played by Michael Jai White) is enjoying a nice game of billiards when some enterprising local criminals, intent on collecting a bounty, arrive with the apparently dead body of Heath Ledger’s Joker. Of course nothing is ever as it seems with The…
For every joke that makes it to TV, there’s probably a dozen that don’t. TV series, whether they’re sitcoms or talk shows, go through myriad iterations before hitting your eyeballs, and, on occasion, the best stuff hits the cutting room floor. That’s why John Oliver of Last Week Tonight regularly shares his team’s…
Kacey Musgraves is often hailed as a real country music singer-songwriter, who can craft and belt a song about women in the throes of love and heartbreak like her charming forebears Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, and Willie Nelson. On her third studio album, Golden Hour, Musgraves proves staying true to her country …
Not only was Split the first M. Night Shyamalan movie in a number of years that didn’t completely suck, but it was also the first to draw a direct link to another film in the director’s oeuvre. In the film’s post-credits scene, we see Bruce Willis reprise his role as David Dunn from Unbreakable and name check Samuel…
Strange things might not be afoot at the Circle-K after all—despite recent reports that a third entry in the Bill & Ted franchise was finally and truly in the works, Ted “Theodore” Logan himself is now harshing our buzz. While promoting his new romantic crime drama, Siberia, Keanu Reeves told Yahoo! Entertainment that …
Perhaps appropriately for a show that’s set behind the scenes at a reality series, it’s been a bumpy ride for UnREAL, Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro’s drama that’s not officially about The Bachelor, but is totally about The Bachelor. Shortly after winning a Peabody award in 2016 for its critically acclaimed…
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn gave no shortage of Marvel fans an urgent sense of purpose when he confirmed a heretofore-undiscovered easter egg in the 2014 original. Exploratory theories and videos abound, and though Gunn lauded YouTuber MasterTainment for finding bits of the egg, he still says the dude…
